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Thomas Metzinger wrote an article on Edge called ‘Benevolent Artificial Anti-Natalism (BAAN)‘. However, if AI become a moral philosopher itself, one of the possible outcome is the AI becomes pro-mortalist, possibly partly influenced by my article on pro-mortalism. Also, I think it is

What do you think about distribution of nootropics (caffeine, modafinil, etc.) for poverty alleviation as a cause area? (associated cause areas include nootropics advocacy, nootropics deregulation movement, provision of nootropics for high impact people) Steven Johnson claimed “And the

If you would like to for any reason leave your country of origin, there are two places where immigration regulations are the most open, Svalbard, Norway and Paraguay. Svalbard, Norway Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago within the Arctic circle. Svalbard

What do you think about an Uber-like taxi app with free price system What do you think about an Uber-like taxi app which you request departure and destination point, but the taxi drivers quote the price freely? (or the passenger

Procreative benevolence-malevolence asymmetry: While you cannot bring someone into existence to reduce their suffering (as the potential person was not suffering at all while non-existent), you can create someone to inflict suffering upon.

<Conundrum of negative population ethics> World A: 1 person suffers 1 billion seconds World B: 1 billion people suffer 1 second each with the same intensity per second World B strikes me as much less bad than World A. World

Summary: Although more test, research, cost-effectiveness verification is needed, providing two helmets (one for driver, one for passenger) for motorcycle taxi drivers of developing countries to reduce traffic accident fatality could have around $10/QALY, $350/life-saved-equivalent(35 QALY) cost-effectiveness. What’s your thoughts

I recently found out that eyeglasses is perhaps the most neglected cause in the world. (See the image, Glasses: $0.016/person/year, Malaria: $11.22/person/year, i.e. 700 times difference of Global Funding per person per year, of course per capita cost/importance of malaria